Chapter 7

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Thought / Dream / Event from the past

[Voice from the past]

"Dialogue"

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=Phone Call=

Written

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※Notification / Unread Mail/Report※

Dangerous tone / Magic Incantation / Sound Effect

Omake 1 :

Hell Hath No Fury Like a Naito Shin Scorned

Akako was walking home after buying the groceries - hey, even a Witch like her had to buy groceries too - that night, when her Magic alerted her of an approaching danger and she stopped short.

Swoosh!

Less than a second after she stopped walking, a black colored something hit the ground that she would have stepped should she not stop walking - since she did, it hit the ground right in front of her right foot.

She turned around to face her attacker, but she didn't see anyone. Another alert told her to jump aside, so she did - just in time to avoid a small marble that would have hit her back. She turned around again, but once again, she didn't see anyone. Another alert, and she jumped sideways while whirling around in the air - certain that she would see her attacker this time, but while she saw the small black thing hit the ground where her foot was, she still didn't see anyone.

Having had enough, Akako summoned her Scythe and got ready for a fight, while her Magic safely sent her groceries to her home. "Who is there?!" She demanded as her eyes searching her surroundings.

Silence greeted her.

Gritting her teeth, she looked at what was the black thing that had been aimed at her feet, only to see two black colored cards - with a white Ace of Spade on it. Her eyes widened seeing that, just before another alert caused her to jump away from the wall behind her. A ball hit the wall in that instant, right where her stomach was previously.

"Using Voodoo that time was annoying enough, you know?"

Akako tensed when she heard the voice, and she looked up at the rooftop of the building across from her, before narrowing her eyes in anger. The sight that greeted her was that of a silhouette of a boy wearing a Top Hat and a cape against the light of the Full Moon.

"Kaitou Kid?" She called out with a sneer, "And here I thought that you're supposed to be non-violent".

The boy let out a snort, before jumping down from the roof, smoothly and gently floating down until his feet touching the ground. It was a mere trick, Akako knew, for Kid wasn't Magical like her. Only…

Akako realized her mistake when the boy stepped out of the shadowed area and into the light.

… the boy wasn't the Kaitou Kid. No, the boy in front of her was an exact opposite of the Kaitou, for not only that this boy wore a mostly dark blue - almost black - clothes, but this boy was also the famous Heisei Holmes.

"Naito Shin." She scowled at the boy, "Why would a Detective hailed as the Knight of Truth attacking me like this? I'm not a criminal".

There was something strange about the so-called Knight of Truth though, for the Detective didn't wear the Black Monocle that was part of his Trademark Uniform, but he was wearing a white mask with an unnaturally wide smile and strangely shaped eye holes - making her unable to see his eyes at all.

"Not a criminal? Ha!" The Naito Shin laughed mockingly at her, "For someone who was trying to kill the Kaitou Kid just the day before, you have some nerve to call yourself an innocent person".

"Oh? Did Kid tell you that?" Akako asked with a smirk, "Why would you believe what a little Thief like him said? For all you know, he could be lying".

"As if." Naito Shin was clearly glaring down at her behind his Mask, "Kaitou Kid never tell me or anyone anything about you." He began to walk slowly to circle around her, "Not when you used that Voodoo to him, trying to use pain to force him to bow down to you and becoming your slave. Not when you used your Magic and tried to get him to eat your Enchanted Chocolate, to make him fall in love with you. Not when you used those Magic Sticker to make him fall in love with you, and certainly not when you waited for him on top of the Touto Tower, planning to kill him".

"If he didn't tell you, then how would you know all that?" Akako asked him with a smile, while also trying to use her Magic to charm the Detective, to make him fall in love with her and stop this nonsense, "No one else was there".

"No one?" Naito Shin asked her calmly, not reacting at all to her Magic, causing her to narrow her eyes, "Are you sure about that? Because I clearly had seen everything with my own eyes".

"Are you actually Kid behind that Mask?" Akako demanded to him out of the blue, making him halted his steps.

"Why do you ask that, Witch?" Naito Shin asked tonelessly.

"Only the Kaitou Kid is immune to my Magic." Akako revealed smugly, "The fact that you don't react to my Charm at all tell me that you're him".

"Hooo?" The Detective - or was he really the Kid? - drawled as he began to walk again, forcing Akako to turn around as well to keep him within her eyesight, "Who tell you such nonsense, I wonder?".

"What?" Akako hissed at him.

"Do you seriously believes that only the Kaitou Kid is immune to your Magical Charm?" Naito Shin questioned her with a snort, "This world isn't like the story, you know? The Snow White?".

A vein throbbed on Akako's forehead. "Why are you mentioning Snow White now?" She demanded in anger.

"Oh, just the similarity in the plot line." Naito Shin stopped circling her then, shrugging nonchalantly as he explained, "The Wicked Queen asked the Magic Mirror who is the fairest of all, and the Mirror said that only Snow White is more fairer than her." He tilted his head as he looked at her, "The Wicked Queen is quite gullible, isn't she? Logically, it's impossible that only one person would be more beautiful than her, there's always bigger fish in the ocean after all".

"Are you saying I'm gullible?" Akako hissed at him again, readying her Scythe for a fight.

"Exactly." Naito Shin was clearly smirking behind his Mask - she could hear it in his voice, "After all, you believed that the only one immune to your Magic is the Kaitou Kid, while in truth, there are many other people who would be immune to such thing in this world." The guy was more amused than ever it seemed, "Take myself, for example. I'm not Kid, but I'm immune to your Magic - and I'm sure there are more people like us in this world".

"Oh?" Akako questioned sarcastically, "Are you sure about that? For all I know, you are Kid behind that Mask, pretending to be someone else again".

"You want proof?" Naito Shin asked calmly, "Why don't you show yourself, Otouto?".

"Honestly…" Kid's voice coming from behind her shocked her, and she looked back from above her shoulder to see Kid - the one with white Uniform and Monocle, the genuine one - walked out of a nearly alleyway with his hands in his pant's pockets, "Why must I get dragged into this scheme you have, Onii-san? I don't want to have anything to do with the Witch anymore".

"Kid?!" Akako gasped with wide eyes, before looking at Naito Shin again, "Bu- but…" If Kid and Naito Shin are different people, then it's true that Kid isn't the only one who is immune to my Magic?! She thought in disbelief.

"See?" Naito Shin shrugged at her again, "You are pretty gullible for a Witch".

Akako narrowed her eyes again. "And what is the point of all this, Naito Shin?!" She demanded angrily.

"I have said earlier…" Naito Shin started as he continued his circling around her, "You used that Voodoo on him that time is annoying enough. I tolerated it when you tried to feed him your Enchanted Chocolate, and planting that Magic Sticker on him, but trying to kill him?" He growled the last part with so much fury that it made Akako shivered in dread, something told her that angering Naito Shin was her gravest mistake, "No, I can't tolerate such thing".

"And what can you do about it, huh?" Akako challenged him despite her Magic warning her against such action, "You're just a mere human, I have Magic over you".

"Magic that can't affect me at all, you mean?" Naito Shin challenged her back, before gesturing to Kid - whose presence had been forgotten completely by Akako - with his head. "You can leave, Kid." He told the Thief with a soft and fond way of speak, "It would be best that a gentle person like you to not see this".

"You know that you don't have to do this, right, Shin?" Kid asked him quietly, "I'm sure she won't try to do such thing ever again".

"Maybe, but I still have to make it stick in her head." Here Naito Shin glared at her again behind his Mask, "No one's taking you away from me".

Kid smiled at that. "Possessive much." He commented fondly, before disappeared with a puff of smoke.

"What now?" Akako questioned tensely, tightening her grip on her Scythe, "Are we going to fight to death?".

"You really don't know me if you think I'm going to kill you, or anyone else for that matter." Naito Shin scoffed at her.

Angrily, Akako held out one of her palm to him, trying to use her Magic to throw him backwards. Trying being the keyword, for Naito Shin didn't move even an inch from his spot. Gasping, she tried again, sending a wave of her Magic harder towards the silently standing Detective. But once again, the said Detective didn't move from his spot, and only his cape and hair being moved by her Magic, swaying gently as though Naito Shin merely standing against a lightly blowing wind.

"Why?" Akako asked desperately, fear gripping her heart due to her Magic was rendered useless in front of this Detective, "Why is my Magic not working?! Even Kid is still affected by the physical aspect of my Magic!".

"Wouldn't you like to know?" Naito Shin asked rhetorically as he slowly approaching her.

As he walked towards her, Akako shakily walked backwards, step by step - until Akako's back hit the wall behind her, and Naito Shin stopped just a meter in front of her. This close to the Detective, Akako could see his eyes through the eye holes of his Mask - they were hard like the Blue Sapphire, and were darkened by fury.

Akako felt naked under the gaze of those eyes. She felt weak and vulnerable, as though she was nothing more than the normal people she looked down upon - incapable of anything, abandoned by her Magic, and not even her Scythe could provide her with any protection. Her heartbeat was frantic and she began to pant, sweat pouring out of her skin when the fear she had felt had climbed up a notch, leaving her petrified.

"It's ironic, isn't it? A Detective like me accepting the existence of Magic and its User." Naito Shin began to say, softly but without inflection, "Do you know why?".

Akako couldn't even open her mouth or moved her body to give a respond to that, she could only stare at the person in front of her with wide eyes, petrified that she was.

"Well, I don't care whether you know or not though, so I don't believe I have to enlighten you." The Detective continued, still talking tonelessly. "What matter here is you give me your words that you will never antagonize Kid anymore, nor his civilian self for that matter." His toneless voice finally changed as he hissed at her while raising a hand, a ball of flame above his palm burning brightly in the darkness of the night - it was a trick, she knew it in her heart, but her mind believing that it wasn't a trick at all. "Do I have your words, Witch?" Naito Shin asked softly to her, but a threat could be heard clearly in the air.

Akako whimpered there, an image of her being burned alive like what had happened during the Witch Hunt filled her head. Tears tried to fill her eyes, but she held back valiantly, blinking to stop the sensation. She couldn't cry. A Witch would lose her power should she cry, so she couldn't shed her tears - she wouldn't.

"Well?" Naito Shin demanded impatiently, though never once did he raise his voice.

"Y- yes!" Akako forced herself to speak, "I give you my words, I will never antagonize Kid or yourself anymore, nor do I will antagonize Kid's civilian self".

"Good." Naito Shin said in satisfaction as he let the ball of fire drop from his palm, hitting the ground, only for the fire suddenly rose so high like a wall of fire straight out from hell.

Akako screamed in fear and closed her eyes, feeling the heat and tensed - expecting to feel the pain of being burned - but it was gone in the next instant. Hesitantly, she peeked an eye open a slit, but ended up looking around wildly with wide eyes when she found herself alone.

The street was empty, and the night was silent and undisturbed, as though the encounter had never happened at all.

A rush of relief filled Akako's whole being, making her knees weak, which caused her to fall onto her knees - her whole body shaking from the experience. She wished so badly that crying wouldn't make her Magic gone, because she was so relieved that she was still alive and well that she wanted to sob, crying her heart out.

Alas, she couldn't.

So she did the next best thing, closing her eyes and just reveled in the fact that she was unharmed.

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Once she finally calm down and returned to her Mansion in the middle of the forest, Akako wondered just what exactly the person behind the Naito Shin, for surely no normal human could make her feel such helplessness.

So, she decided to call upon Lucifer to get her answer.

"O Lucifer, the King of Evilness in this world." Akako chanted as she held a talisman paper with a star on it, before dropping in into the bubbling cauldron, "Show your ugly face right now and answer me! Come forth, Lucifer!".

The smoke from the cauldron rose up to form the figure of Lucifer. "Who is the idiot who dares to summon me?" The Devil asked, but Akako ignored him.

"Answer me, Lucifer." She began instead, "Who and what is the person behind the Knight of Truth known as Naito Shin?".

The Devil stared her, then, what she had thought to be impossible happened - Lucifer snorted in mirth, causing her eyes to widen in surprise.

"My usual Summoner, who has once again proved herself to be an idiot, indeed." Lucifer said in amusement, "What have you done now, Red Sorceress, to make the Demon of Light notices you?" It was a rhetorical question, obviously, for the Devil should have known already what she had just experienced.

"Demon of Light?" Akako repeated in shock, "He is a Demon?".

"No, not exactly." Lucifer mused thoughtfully, "Kudou Shinichi, who is the person behind the Mask of the Naito Shin, is a Contradicting Soul".

As he spoke, the smoke from the cauldron began to make shapes, providing a visualization of what he was saying.

"Born from a blood of Demonic Descent, and yet his Soul is so bright like an Angel."

The first image was a silhouette of a boy with a pair of glowing red slit eyes and clawed hands, with a line flowing from the boy down in the shape of stair steps - one, then two, until it reached the silhouette of a teenage boy with a cowlick on his head. The silhouette of the teenage boy somehow managed to let out a soft golden glow, even though it was made from smoke.

He is the Great Grandson of a Demon? Akako thought upon seeing that.

Then, the image changed into the same teenage boy being surrounded by countless bodies on the ground, with the background being a cemetery of some kind. The boy was holding a Shinigami Scythe with one hand, but a small plant was growing on his other palm.

"Surrounded by Death - Chosen as His Champion, and yet inspiring Life to the people whose Souls he touched."

The silhouette of the Demon from before appeared again, using a gun to kill someone now, but the silhouette of the teenage boy - Kudou Shinichi - was standing in front of someone else, arms raised to the side as though shielding the person behind him.

"Having the blood of a Killer, and yet he becomes the Protector and Savior, who has never taken a single life."

Finally, the image changed one last time. This one was simple enough, the silhouette of Kudou Shinichi was holding the hand of unnamed person, leading that person from the darkness and into the light.

"Powerful enough to be a Demon Prince, and yet he pulls people away from the Darkness, from the path of Evil." Lucifer finished his musing, before turning his attention to Akako again. "Red Sorceress, I will only warn you this once." He told her, "Never turn your Magic against him anymore, or he will take it away the next time".

With that words, the image of Lucifer that was created by the smoke of her cauldron dissipated back into a mere smoke. Akako was surprised, for Lucifer never left before she dismissed him before, but that was only one thought that was in her mind.

Naito Shin - or Kudou Shinichi, was really someone she should have never messed with.

Line~Line~Line

So, Akako knew that Shinichi is a descendant of a Demon - but whether Shinichi himself knew about it or not is still a mystery - hence why she said 'Your Demon Husband' to Kaito that time in the Valentine chapter.

By the way, can you guess who is his Great Grandfather?

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